Assessing the drivers of gut microbiome composition in wild redfronted lemurs via longitudinal metacommunity analysis.

ABSTRACT: The gut microbiome influences host's immunity, development, and metabolism and participates in the gut-brain axis, thus impacting the health of the host. It is a dynamic community varying between individuals and within individuals at different time points. Hence, determining the factors causing this variability may elucidate their impact on host's health. However, understanding the drivers of variation has proven difficult particularly as multiple interactions occur simultaneously in the gut microbiome. We investigated the factors shaping the gut microbiome by applying the metacommunity concept where the gut microbiome is considered as a microbial community shaped by the interactions within the community, with the host and microbial communities outside the host, this through a longitudinal

SUBMITTER: Murillo T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9744850 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature